| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jun 25 11:28PM -0500 > For further information, including an explanation of the """ notation > that may appear in these rounds, see my 2020-06-23 companion posting on > "Reposted Questions from the Canadian Inquisition (RQFTCI*)". I wrote one of these rounds. ** Game 9, Round 9 - Arts - Newspaper Comics We don't need the titles of the comic strips shown. Instead, you can win your very valuable points by naming the *artist and/or writer* responsible for the strip (originally or, if applicable, """today""") -- if there is more than one person, any one will do. Or alternatively, you can give *two* names of characters depicted in the specific comic shown -- and those can be two given names, two different surnames, or one of each. ("Mr." does not count as a name.) If the strip's title uses its characters' names, though, your answer must contain some part not in the title. For example, if we had a "Peanuts" panel featuring Lucy and Linus Van Pelt, you could answer "Schulz" (or "Charles Schulz"), or "Lucy and Linus", or "Lucy Van Pelt", or "Linus Van Pelt", but not "Peanuts". 1. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/oo9/9/A.jpg 2. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/oo9/9/B.jpg 3. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/oo9/9/C.jpg 4. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/oo9/9/D.jpg 5. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/oo9/9/E.jpg 6. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/oo9/9/F.jpg 7. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/oo9/9/G.jpg 8. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/oo9/9/H.jpg 9. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/oo9/9/I.jpg 10. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/oo9/9/J.jpg After you are finished with all the questions, please decode the rot13: Vs lbh pbeerpgyl nafjrerq jvgu whfg "Uv" naq "Ybvf" sbe bar dhrfgvba, lbh unir rssrpgviryl whfg tvira gur gvgyr bs gur fgevc. Cyrnfr tb onpx naq rkcnaq bar bs gur anzrf. ** Game 9, Round 10 - Challenge Round (Again, all of the category titles were names of teams in the Canadian Inquisition. This time we could only find good questions to fit four of the then-active teams without repeating from the earlier round where we used this theme, so we threw in one defunct team. Of the five, only Five Guys Named Moe were still active up to the pandemic shutdown in 2020.) * A. All Over Twisted A1. If a strip of paper is given a half-twist and its ends joined together, it forms a configuration with a single surface and a single edge. What is the mathematical term for this? A2. The <answer A1> has a theoretical 3-dimensional analog, a solid figure with no inside. To actually construct this figure would require access to 4-dimensional space, but a form resembling it can be made in glass by extending the neck of a bottle, passing it through a hole (which we pretend does not exist) in the side, and joining it onto a hole in the base. What is this theoretical figure called? * B. Team Formerly Known As B1. The Toronto NHL franchise now called the Maple Leafs had two previous names. Give *either one*. B2. The Detroit NHL franchise now called the Red Wings had two previous names. Give *either one*. * C. 8:30 in Newfoundland C1. If the month is July and it's 8:30 AM in St. John's, Newfoundland, what time """is""" it in Whitehorse, Yukon? C2. If the month is January and it's 8:30 AM in St. John's, Newfoundland, what time """is""" it in Nottingham, England? * D. Five Guys Named Moe D1. The Three Stooges only had one guy named Moe, but they had more than two other guys, as one replaced another over time. How many stooges, altogether, performed as official members of the group under that name? D2. At one time there used to be an Oscar for the best comedy short film. A 1934 Three Stooges film, nominated for this Oscar, had the same title as one of the films that won an Oscar """last week""". What title? * E. Press Gang *Note*: On this pair you can give either the 1998 answer or the current/recent answer, and you don't need to say which year you're answering for, but when giving a single two-part answer, both parts must be for the same one of the two years. And for greater clarity, a "news*paper*" is not an Internet publication. E1. This pair is about the daily newspapers with the largest circulation. In the original game in 1998, the leading US newspaper in circulation was the "Wall Street Journal", and you could name *any two* of the next four. Today the "Wall Street Journal" has dropped to second place, and you can name *any other two* of the top five. E2. In 1998 three of the four leading Canadian daily newspapers, in circulation, were the three Toronto papers. (With recent data -- based on 2015, as I couldn't find anything newer -- and now four Toronto papers, they occupy four of the top 7 places.) Name any *two of the four* largest-circulation Canadian papers *outside* Toronto, excluding free papers. After you have finished with the round, please decode this rot13: Vs lbh nafjrerq dhrfgvba P2 jvgu nal bs "gjryir b'pybpx" (va jbeqf be ahzrenyf), "gjryir NZ", be "gjryir CZ", gura cyrnfr tb onpx naq pbeerpg vg gb ernq "abba" be "zvqavtug". -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "It is one thing to praise discipline, and another msb@vex.net | to submit to it." -- Miguel de Cervantes, 1613 My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Jun 26 05:31AM > ** Game 9, Round 9 - Arts - Newspaper Comics > 1. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/oo9/9/A.jpg Berke Breathed > 2. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/oo9/9/B.jpg Hi and Lois Flagston > 3. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/oo9/9/C.jpg Dagwood Bumstead and Daisy > 7. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/oo9/9/G.jpg Lynn Johnston > 9. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/oo9/9/I.jpg Garry Trudeau > 10. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/oo9/9/J.jpg Bill Amend > joined together, it forms a configuration with a single > surface and a single edge. What is the mathematical term > for this? Moebius strip > the neck of a bottle, passing it through a hole (which we > pretend does not exist) in the side, and joining it onto > a hole in the base. What is this theoretical figure called? Klein bottle > * C. 8:30 in Newfoundland > C1. If the month is July and it's 8:30 AM in St. John's, Newfoundland, > what time """is""" it in Whitehorse, Yukon? 4:30 AM > C2. If the month is January and it's 8:30 AM in St. John's, > Newfoundland, what time """is""" it in Nottingham, England? 11:30 AM; 12:30 AM > more than two other guys, as one replaced another over time. > How many stooges, altogether, performed as official members > of the group under that name? 6 > and you could name *any two* of the next four. Today the > "Wall Street Journal" has dropped to second place, and you > can name *any other two* of the top five. New York Times and USA Today -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Jun 26 12:41AM -0700 On 6/25/21 9:28 PM, Mark Brader wrote: > "Lucy and Linus", or "Lucy Van Pelt", or "Linus Van Pelt", but not > "Peanuts". > 1. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/oo9/9/A.jpg Breathed > 2. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/oo9/9/B.jpg > 3. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/oo9/9/C.jpg Dagwood, Daisy > 4. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/oo9/9/D.jpg > 5. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/oo9/9/E.jpg Clayton, Katy > 7. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/oo9/9/G.jpg > 8. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/oo9/9/H.jpg > 9. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/oo9/9/I.jpg Trudeau > 10. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/oo9/9/J.jpg Peter, Jason > joined together, it forms a configuration with a single > surface and a single edge. What is the mathematical term > for this? Moebius strip > the neck of a bottle, passing it through a hole (which we > pretend does not exist) in the side, and joining it onto > a hole in the base. What is this theoretical figure called? Klein bottle > * C. 8:30 in Newfoundland > C1. If the month is July and it's 8:30 AM in St. John's, Newfoundland, > what time """is""" it in Whitehorse, Yukon? 4 a.m. > C2. If the month is January and it's 8:30 AM in St. John's, > Newfoundland, what time """is""" it in Nottingham, England? 12 noon > more than two other guys, as one replaced another over time. > How many stooges, altogether, performed as official members > of the group under that name? 2 > and you could name *any two* of the next four. Today the > "Wall Street Journal" has dropped to second place, and you > can name *any other two* of the top five. New York Times, Washington Post -- Dan Tilque |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jun 25 11:24PM -0500 Mark Brader: > see my 2020-06-23 companion posting on "Reposted Questions from > the Canadian Inquisition (RQFTCI*)". > I wrote one of these rounds. The geography round. > 1. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/oo9/7/A.gif > This image is an incorrect version of the British flag, also > called the Union Jack or Union Flag. What is wrong with it? The four red diagonals (modified cross of St. Patrick) should not touch the other red stripes (cross of St. George). 4 for Joshua. See: http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/images/g/gb.gif > Clearly identify *any one* of the changes you would have to > make if you wanted to "correct" this image into a correct flag > of either country -- but *you must say which country*. To make a New Zealand flag: [1] delete the large (white) star; [2] delete the small (white) star. To make an Australian flag: [1] make the medium-size stars plain white with no red centers; [2] change the medium-size stars from 5 to 7 points: any reference to the number of points on these stars was okay. 4 for Dan and Joshua. See: http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/images/n/nz.gif http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/images/a/au.gif > Don't worry about the Arabic writing; that part is correct > (for its translation see Round 4 of this game, answer 1). > What isn't? The writing should be above the sword, not below. 4 for Joshua. See: http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/images/s/sa.gif > 4. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/oo9/7/D.gif > How does this image differ from a correct flag of Israel? Above and below the star should be a single thick horizontal blue bar rather than the double bars. 4 for Erland and Joshua. See: http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/images/i/il.gif > 5. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/oo9/7/E.gif > How does this image differ from a correct flag of Nepal? The whole green area should be deleted. (The flag is not rectangular.) 4 for Dan, Joshua, and Pete. 3 for Erland. See: http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/images/n/np.gif on which the gray area is not part of the flag. > 6. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/oo9/7/F.gif > This image differs from a correct Canadian flag in two ways. > Name *both* errors. [1] Two points are missing from the bottom of the maple leaf. Any reference to the bottom of the leaf or the number of points was sufficient. And [2] the white stripe is too wide (should be square) and the red ones too narrow (should each have 1/2 the width of the white square). Any reference implying an insufficient amount of red in relation to the white was acceptable. 4 for Dan. See: http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/images/c/ca.gif > 7. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/oo9/7/G.gif > How does this image differ from a correct flag of Sweden? The blue cross within the yellow should be deleted. 4 for Dan, Erland, and Pete. See: http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/images/s/se.gif > 8. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/oo9/7/H.gif > How does this image differ from a correct flag of India? The stripes should be horizontal. We borrowed the vertically striped layout from Ireland's flag, which has no emblem in the center. 4 for Erland. See: http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/images/i/in.gif http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/images/i/ie.gif > The flag of Greece was changed """some years ago""" so that at > least one color is darker than you may remember it. Nothing else > was changed. How does this image differ from the Greek flag? The red stripes should be blue. 4 for everyone -- Dan, Erland, Joshua, and Pete. When I looked it up to see when exactly they changed from lighter to darker blue, I found that there never was an official change, as the flag law never had specified the exact color in the first place. They just started using the darker blue, after about 1970. Anyway, see: http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/images/g/gr.gif > 10. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/oo9/7/J.gif > Finally, how does this image differ from a correct US flag? Each star has been rotated in place. ("Upside-down" would be close enough.) They should each have one point on top, like the star on the flag of Liberia (http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/oo9/7/K.gif). 4 for Dan and Joshua. See: http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/images/u/us.gif > them not belonging to countries. Identify them (and their errors) > if you like for fun, but for no points. > 11. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/oo9/7/K.gif Correct flag of Liberia. > 12. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/oo9/7/L.gif Flag of Seychelles with the sequence of colors reversed. See: http://www.fotw.info/images/s/sc.gif > 13. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/oo9/7/M.gif Correct flag of Bosnia & Herzegovina (new flag adopted 1998). Erland got the country but thought there was an error. > 14. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/oo9/7/N.gif Old flag of Rwanda (until 2001) with the letter R changed to a different character. See: http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/images/r/rw-1962.gif For their current flag see: http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/images/r/rw.gif > 15. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/oo9/7/O.gif Correct flag of Greenland. Erland got the place but thought there was an error. > 16. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/oo9/7/P.gif European Union flag with the colors reversed. Erland got this. See: http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/images/e/eu-eun.gif > And sometimes when I'm falling, flying > Or tumbling in turmoil I say > Oh, so this is what she means "Graceland" (Paul Simon). 4 for Dan. > Days when the rains came > Down in the hollow > Playing a new game "Brown-Eyed Girl" (Van Morrison). 4 for Dan, Joshua, and Pete. > Watching the snow fall on this cold December night > And out in the middle of Lake Ontario > The same snow is falling on the deep silent water "Hasn't Hit Me Yet" (Blue Rodeo). > I spent the best part of my losing streak > In an army jeep > For what I can't recall "Leaving Las Vegas" (Sheryl Crow). > And took me two more to get over the loss > I took a beating when you wrote me those letters > And every time I remembered the taste of your lipgloss "Enid" (Barenaked Ladies). > It's in my blood and it's all around > I love you now like I loved you then > This is the road and these are the hands "Life is a Highway" (Tom Cochrane). 4 for Joshua. > 7. I will paint my picture > Paint myself in blue and red and black and gray > All of the beautiful colors are very, very meaningful "Mr. Jones" (Counting Crows). 4 for Joshua. > I hope that you can just let it go by > And if I have been untrue > I hope you know it was never to you "Bird on the Wire" (Leonard Cohen). > 9. I feel drunk but I'm sober > I'm young and I'm underpaid > I'm tired but I'm working, yeah "Hand in my Pocket" (Alanis Morisette). 4 for Joshua. > And I ain't got nothing to say > I come home in the morning > I go to bed feeling the same way "Dancing in the Dark" (Bruce Springsteen). 4 for Dan and Joshua. Scores, if there are no errors: GAME 9 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 7 8 BEST TOPICS-> Sci Spo Mis Can Geo Ent FOUR Joshua Kreitzer 16 28 36 4 28 20 112 Stephen Perry 36 40 -- -- -- -- 76 Dan Blum 12 8 20 4 24 12 68 Dan Tilque 20 20 10 4 -- -- 54 Erland Sommarskog 8 8 12 0 19 0 47 Pete Gayde 4 24 -- -- 12 4 44 Bruce Bowler 20 20 -- -- -- -- 40 -- Mark Brader, Toronto | And perhaps another sigquote for Mark, who msb@vex.net | seems to be running low... --Steve Summit My text in this article is in the public domain. |
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